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Live from Wimbledon: Taking social media further with Wimbledon DigitalFor the 2019 Championships, Wimbledon Digital, the social media team for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), has launched a daily live show for social platforms, a move that coincides with a concerted effort to improve workflow efficiencies from...
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Sports coverage to the fore as Facebook Watch claims 140m viewers a dayFacebook is attracting 140 million people to its Watch service each day, the social network has claimed, with sport playing a crucial role in this success. In an article authored by Paresh Rajwat, the director of product management, and Matthew...
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SportTech 2019: Embracing football fan culture with COPA90At SportTech 2019, Copa90 chief product officer and general manager Barry Flanigan took delegates inside the hugely successful football media business, revealing how it found its USP in what is an overcrowded market by turning the camera away from the...
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SportTech 2019: The Football Social goes under the spotlightSky Sports' live fan-led YouTube series 'The Football Social' will be the subject of a special session at SportTech 2019 on 22 May. 'The Football Social' is a reactive chat show that is streamed live via YouTube and Facebook on...
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SportTech 2019: BBC Sport session to focus on targeting a new generation of sports viewerBBC Sport younger audiences editor Amy Williams will provide delegates at SportTech 2019 (22 May, Lord's) with an insight into the technological and editorial innovations that the corporation is employing to attract a new generation of sports viewer. In a...
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SportTech 2019: Social media highlights and clipping to be addressed in ‘Perfecting Your Short Game’ masterclassSpeakers from Sky Sports, Canal Plus, ITN Productions and Input Media will take part in a masterclass session at next month's SportTech 2019 (22 May, Lord's) that will focus on creating and distributing sports highlights and clips for social media...
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Nordic Summit 2019: How TV 2 Norway produced digital-first ski championships coverageNorwegian public broadcaster NRK was rights-holder for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Austria last month. But given the giant scale of the event, Norway’s leading commercial broadcaster TV 2 also staged significant digital-first coverage involving 15 reporting...
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SportTech 2019: Registration now open for 22 May event at Lord’sOTT, social media and live streaming will take centre stage on 22 May when SVG Europe brings its SportTech 2019 conference to Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The specially curated one-day event will examine how these new forms of distribution...
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Facebook added to line-up for SVG Europe’s SportTech on 30 MayMelissa Lawton, Live Sports Production Strategist at Facebook, will present a special session at SVG Europe’s OTT-themed SportTech conference later this month. In ‘More Than Just Friends: Streaming Live Sport With Facebook’, New York-based Lawton will provide delegates with a...
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Russia’s VK expands network with Global CrossingRussia: With Sochi 2014 only just over the horizon, it's perhaps significant that VK, a leading Russian social networking site with 150m users, has purchased IP Transit and Wavelength Services from Global Crossing to accommodate its rapidly expanding services. With...
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Making the most of social mediaParis: No one denies that social media will play a key part in the future of sports marketing. FC Barcelona, for instance, put on 10m Facebook fans in a year, but what exactly can they do with the 15m they...
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TV Genius serves up sporting TweetsWith broadcasters the world over desperate to tap into the power of social media, TV Genius has taken the wraps of its advanced measurement and analysis systems for Twitter activity around TV, further improving the relevance of content discovery among...
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BBC experiments with check-ins at festivalUK: Tangential to sports perhaps, but an interesting experiment nevertheless and one that could have implications for any venue looking to engage with an audience: at Radio 1's Big Weekend 2011 this coming weekend, the BBC will test a new...
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Soccerex debates digital mediaUK: A panel at last week’s Soccerex exhibition and conference in Manchester looked at the issue of web 2.0 digital media and how it has moved the goalposts of fan interaction. On the one hand clubs and their sponsors have...
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